Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Drawing on existing academic literature, institutional accounts and agency reports on Palestinian VET, we explore the question of how VET can support resilience, a neglected topic in the international VET literature. In spite of the horrendous current situation, we suggest that there are signs of ho…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
The evolving professional landscape necessitates educational innovation to prepare students for emerging challenges. This paper explores the integration of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Higher Education (HE) through double-degree programs, challenging the conventional perception of the…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This paper reports on research investigating Australian employer-training provider partnerships through the examination of three features in-depth: the nature of partnerships, the perceived benefits for both parties and the attributes of successful partnerships. The research project used a mixed met…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Political economy scholars have long studied the (pre-)conditions conducive to the collective provision of private goods, such as in-firm training. Previous research has established the importance of economic considerations to enter training and underscored the relative stability of firms’ continued…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This paper provides a sociocultural understanding of how airline cabin crew negotiate their learning for emergencies and challenges the conventional approach of relying solely on formal training. Drawing on ethnographic methods, our research offers insights into the learning trajectory of the cabin …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Recognition of prior learning (RPL) has gained importance as an instrument for promoting the permeability of education and training systems. Despite the many advantages at the individual and social level, such as supporting lifelong learning processes, previous research indicates that RPL implementa…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This paper explores the contrast between the policy vision for public technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges in South Africa, and governance and funding models that have shaped institutional forms and functioning over time. Policy aspires for TVET colleges to play a role in …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
While technology is playing a more critical role in learning, apprentice lecturers’ use of technology to support learning is under-researched. This qualitative study explores apprentice lecturers’ use and experience of a Learning Management System during and after COVID-19. Thematic analysis was use…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
A longitudinal study of enrichment across post-16 colleges in England and Wales illustrates the possibilities and limitations of colleges’ societal and cultural impact. Over a four-year study, these activities outside subject curricula, widely intended to compensate for the mobilisation of cultural …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Work-based learning is a core element of vocational education and training in Sweden, designed to support students’ transition from school to the workplace. This study explores how vocational teachers prepare students in need of support for WBL within upper secondary education. Drawing on Biesta’s (…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Vocational education and training (VET) provides skills to young people at risk of social exclusion and efficiently integrates them into labour markets. In addition to structural-institutional factors identified in the field of comparative political economy, this article illustrates that the success…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
The goal of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Chile is to prepare students to transition to the labour market as well as progressing to tertiary education, and some vocational secondary schools have engaged in Project-Based Learning (PBL) to achieve this goal. However, there is limited rese…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
In this paper I consider the social role vocational education can play in decentring settler-colonialism. Through focused programming located in community settings, these educational offerings provide opportunities for students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Connecting capitalism’s relation…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Vocational education and training (VET) is crucial for labour market integration and ensuring a skilled workforce. However, VET systems, particularly in countries like Germany and Switzerland, offer heterogeneous training occupations with different labour market returns. This study examines occupati…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This article explores the historically contingent and normative descriptions of vocational education and training (VET) as a low-status alternative in Australia’s socio-economic process of skill and knowledge development. Rather than repeating well-rehearsed shibboleths, this retheorisation of how s…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Poor quality VET is perceived to contribute to a lack of skilled workers, low productivity, and poor outcomes for individuals and society. Such economic failings are often attributed to the low value of VET, ignoring the equally low standing of many of the occupations VET serves. Raising the value o…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This article proposes and illustrates a framework for thinking about how the school-to-work transitions of young people not intending to go to university can be made more equitable. This framework seeks to enrich sociological readings of VET by building on the considerable strengths of existing rese…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
The study discussed in this paper investigated how young women studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses in upper secondary technical institutes in Ghana made their education and career decisions. The study interviewed 26 young women to explore and understand the proc…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
The quality of workplace training in firms is a key factor in both apprentices’ development of skills and the prevention of dropouts in corporatist dual vocational education and training (VET) systems. This article addresses the governance practices at the micro level of VET in a French-speaking Swi…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2024)
A global transition to low-carbon, resource-efficient economies is occurring in response to risks posed by climate change and environmental degradation. Hydrogen is proposed as a zero-carbon substitute for natural gas with the potential to reduce carbon emissions in homes and businesses. Trades, inc…
